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Aadhaar Act contravenes right to life and personal liberty

Aadhaar-related schemes and the Aadhaar Act exist on the assumption that Right to Privacy is not a Fundamental Right. The SC's verdict has totally demolished this flawed assumption, says Dr Gopal......

Full text: What Modi, Obama agreed on

This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama assessed the......

Social perversity: Police insensitivity and public outcry

Instead of lamenting that the police is not doing its job, it is the duty of all citizens to bring these issues out in the open. We must try to find out what is going wrong and try to check this......

'Civil society has taken on the White man's burden'

'When England colonised us they took on the White man's burden. They took upon the burden to educate us. Civil society is doing the same thing by the Right to Food...' says Professor Pradeep......

UK launches programme to reduce poverty in India

The United Kingdom's Department for International Development launched its biggest civil society project on Thursday to mark World Human Rights Day. The Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme and......

UK keen to invest in Bengal, Cameron invites Mamata to London

Prime Minister David Cameron assured British investment in West Bengal at a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was invited by him to visit the UK."The meeting was very constructive......

Rahul's 'poor NREGA performer' generates most jobs

Purulia district in West Bengal, where Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had said, people are worse off than those in Orissa's poorest Kalahandi area, has since turned the corner. The district has......

Cursed with a goldmine?

If you have gold under your feet, consider yourself accursed. For there is something called the resource curse which many in this country's mineral-rich states are reeling under. It would have been......

Jobs for rural poor: Will the plan work?

I want to be on the side of the angels, with the people rooting for the new employment guarantee Bill.And I am mindful that people like me criticised MG Ramchandran's free mid-day meal scheme for......

Corruption with a human face

There are four policy initiatives of the UPA government whose economic rationale is dubious -- at best.Given the dream team of Messrs Manmohan Singh, P C Chidambaram, and Montek Singh Ahluwalia,......

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Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme

News for Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme

Aadhaar Act contravenes right to life and personal liberty

Full text: What Modi, Obama agreed on

Social perversity: Police insensitivity and public outcry

'Civil society has taken on the White man's burden'

UK launches programme to reduce poverty in India

UK keen to invest in Bengal, Cameron invites Mamata to London

Rahul's 'poor NREGA performer' generates most jobs

Cursed with a goldmine?

Jobs for rural poor: Will the plan work?

Corruption with a human face

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